NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS),
a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products,
announced today that NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ are now available to purchase
in the UK. NOOK HD features the highest resolution 7-inch display and
the 9-inch NOOK HD+ is more than 20 percent lighter and nearly half the
cost of the leading full-size tablet.

NOOK(R) HD+ (Photo: Business Wire)

Customers across the UK will now be able to experience this first-hand
in top high street retailers, and the tablets will start arriving
throughout the week to customers who pre-ordered the devices online. The
tablets are arriving on shelves in John Lewis, Argos, Asda, Dixons,
Sainsbury, Waitrose, Blackwell’s and Foyles and they are also available
to purchase through www.nook.co.uk.

Both tablets feature must-see displays for superior reading and
entertainment and NOOK Profiles™, a unique feature that creates an
instantly personalised tablet experience for each family member. Both
NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ offer access to the NOOK Store’s 2.5 million books;
a large selection of magazines and apps; and NOOK Video™, a broad
collection of popular films and TV shows available for purchase or
rental, which will be launched early December.

Jamie Iannone, President of NOOK Media, said: “Our new tablets offer the
best quality reading and entertainment experiences, at the best price.
With the highest resolution 7-inch display available in the UK, every
book read, every movie watched, every game played is rendered in a
digital quality unmatched by other tablets. Pre-orders have exceeded our
expectations and we look forward to UK customers being able to
experience these stunning new tablets.”

With an unmatched high-definition 7-inch display, reading and
entertainment content looks better than ever, and is easily portable as
the NOOK HD is extremely light. At only 315g and just 5-inches (127mm)
wide, it fits beautifully in the hand and is more than 20 percent
lighter and a centimeter narrower than Kindle Fire HD. Its dual-core
1.3GHz high-speed processor makes it highly responsive, smooth and
faster than Kindle Fire HD for a nimble overall experience that is 80
percent faster when it comes to graphics processing for smoother, faster
animations, renderings, apps experience and more. This exceptional
7-inch tablet is available in two colours: ‘Snow’ and ‘Smoke.’ Starting
at just £159 for an 8GB model and only £189 for a 16GB version, both
feature expandable microSD memory storage and extra-long battery life.

For those who want to enjoy reading and entertainment on a larger scale,
NOOK HD+ offers a full HD 9-inch display for up to 1080p for movies,
magazines and more. The fully-laminated display reduces glare and
provides excellent viewing angles – perfect for personal or shared
viewing. At only 515g, NOOK HD+ is the lightest full HD 9-inch** tablet
ever invented. It is power-packed by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor for a
fast, smooth customer experience, whether web browsing; reading books
and magazines; watching videos; using apps or checking email. Offered in
the colour ‘Slate,’ it has great battery life and expandable memory for
even more storage. NOOK HD+ is available for 16GB for £229 and 32GB for
£269, two amazing prices for a brilliant, super-light 9-inch full HD
tablet.

Both NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ offer a range of new features in addition to
access to an expansive collection of content:

NOOK Profiles: A personalised experience that instantly
transforms the device into any family member’s very own tablet. Adults
can use personal passwords to easily protect and access their books,
magazines, videos, apps and their personal email accounts, while their
children can dive into digital picture books, educational apps and
kid-friendly videos.

NOOK Newsstand™: An expansive collection of magazines and
newspapers available by subscription and single copies. The NOOK
Magazine experience adds a visual table of contents to view thumbnails
of the entire magazine and super-fast, 3D-like page turns.
ArticleView™ lets the reader focus only on the text, customised to
their needs, and NOOK Scrapbook™ allows readers to virtually clip
pages of interest and save them in customised digital scrapbooks.

NOOK Apps™: Customers will find all the most popular and
bestselling top 100 app titles including Angry Birds, Cut the Rope,
Fruit Ninja, Words with Friends and many more, all optimised for the
stunning displays. The NOOK Store provides helpful age recommendations
for parents, can be browsed by subject area, and has the broadest and
the most curated app collection of children’s educational apps on any
Android store.

NOOK Channels™: A new shopping experience that allows customers
to easily shop by department or explore Channels based on personal
interest to discover great new content.

NOOK Books™: In one of the world’s largest digital bookstores,
find more than 2.5 million books, including interactive children’s
picture books; comic books and graphic novels; picture-perfect art,
photography, travel guides; and cookbook titles.

Other Must-have Tablet Features:

Top-end processors make the newly-designed browser fast, simple
and smooth to surf favourite sites with a tap, pinch and zoom.

A built-in email app offers new features in an easy-to-use, clean
format that supports a host of popular personal and work-related
email services including Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync.

**NOOK HD+ weighs 515 grams and has a resolution of 256 ppi. Full HD (or
Full High Definition) provides a resolution that is higher quality than
that of HD (or High Definition) and substantially higher quality than
that of SD (or standard definition).

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the
leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The
company operates 689 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of
the Web’s largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com).
Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital
reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers
award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of
digital reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store™ (www.nook.com),
while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 667 bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be
named a J.D. Power and Associated 2012 Customer Service Champion and is
only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the
number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music
and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer
satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring
Top 100 Edition).

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

NOOK®, NOOK Store™, NOOK Video™, NOOK Video Apps™ are
trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other trademarks referenced in this
release are the property of their respective owners.

NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to read what you
love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital
reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to the expansive
NOOK Store™ of more than 2.5 million digital books, plus periodicals,
comics, apps, movies and TV shows, and the ability to enjoy content
across a wide array of popular devices through free NOOK Reading Apps™
and NOOK Video apps, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble’s
nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and
online at www.nook.com,
as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and
many others. NOOK products are also available in the United Kingdom
through www.nook.co.uk and leading
retailers.